GRE Word List
AMALGAM
a mixture of different elements
The meaning of the word amalgam is a mixture of different elements.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incidence | rate of occurrence or influence |
| celerity | rapidity of motion or action |
| propagate | to cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction |
| encipher | to convert (a message) into cipher |
| stun | to make senseless, groggy, or dizzy by or as if by a blow : daze |
| clipper | one that clips something |
| intractable | not easily governed, managed, or directed |
| palimpsest | writing material (such as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| corpulent | having a large bulky body : obese |